Quotes January 30, 2019

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge.
Glenn Seaborg,
chemist
 
 
 
 
The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.
Raymond Chandler,
writer
 
 
 
 
Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.
Sri Chinmoy,
spiritual teacher
 
 
 
 
One’s ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,
novelist, in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”
 
 
 
 
And once he storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.
Haruki Murakami
 
 
 
 
A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.
Christopher Germer
 
 
 
 
Explain your anger, don’t express it and you will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments.
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